Will Coal Power Use Up China's Water?

August 15, 2012 from NTDTV

A report released today by Greenpeace and the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources calculated the water consumption of China's growing coal industry and found that, by 2015, some of China's proposed coal mines and plants would require more water than the land can provide. Coal consumption could use almost 10 billion cubic meters of water, or one-sixth of the Yellow River's total volume annually by 2015.

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Coal mining

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Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in Asia after the Yangtze and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 kilometers. Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China, it flows through nine provinces and empties into ... Explore this topic

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